Books Published in October 1979

New Books List: 200 titles

  • Saucer Hill

    Paul Adler

  • Snows of Offenburg

    Alix Andre

    Sandra had gone to Offenburg to hunt, and she was puzzled and angry when forbidden to do so by Julian, the enigmatic gamekeeper. Then she stumbled on the abandoned lodge in the woods and learned of the murder that had happened there years before. Sud...

  • The Science Fictional Solar System

    Isaac Asimov

    Asimov, Greenberg, and Waugh bring together their favorite stories about the sun, the moon, and the planets and preface each with a discussion of what is known now and what was known when the story was originally written...

  • Love's Burning Flame

    Iris Bancroft

    ALL MEN WISHED TO POSSESS HER. SHE WISHED FOR THE ONE MAN WHOSE LOVE WOULD SET HER FREE! She was barely sixteen when she was taken in innocence to serve the lascivious pleasures of a wicked, immoral court. But Tanya knew nothing of the world that ...

  • Letters

    John Barth

    "A landmark of postmodern American fiction, Letters is (as the subtitle genially informs us) ""an old time epistolary novel by seven fictitious drolls & dreamers each of which imagines himself factual"". Seven characters (including the Author himself...

  • Hubert

    Edgar Berman

  • Nightmare Town

    T. Ernesto Bethancourt

    After a tragic automobile accident, Jimmy and Liz find themselves in a strange Arizona town where people are malformed and ruled by a bizarre religious sect and where a space alien has held people in its power for more than a century...

  • For Love of Jody

    Robbie Branscum

  • The Rip-Off

    Carter Brown

  • Arthur's Eyes

    Marc Brown

    Arthur needs glasses. When he wears them to school, everybody teases him. Arthur tries to go without his glasses but is met with some embarrassing situations. With the help of his friends, Arthur realizes his glasses aren't so bad. Arthur Adventures....

  • A Space of His Own

    Stuart Buchan

    Michael Carver finishes his sentence, for attempted robbery, at the California state work farm and, at eighteen, starts over, teaming up with Merriweather and finding out, too late, that Merriweather is planning the armed robbery of a Hollywood actre...

  • April Snow

    Lillian Budd

  • The Book of Bebb

    Frederick Buechner

    Pulitzer Prize finalist Frederick Buechner's quartet of outrageously witty, inspirational Bebb novels in one volume....

  • Last Look

    Clyde Robert Bulla

  • Fiction Writer's Handbook

    Hallie Burnett

  • High Sierra

    W.R. Burnett

    HIGH SIERRABig Mac buys Roy Earle's pardon because he needs a gunman on a heist job in California. There are three of them in on it besides Roy: Red, Babe and Louis, the inside man. But Roy didn't figure on Marie, Babe's girl. At first Roy wants Mari...

  • Good Times: Every Kid's Book of Things to Do

    Marilyn Burns

    This nostalgic classic from world-renowned educator, Marilyn Burns, is overflowing with clever, yet simple, activities for kids -- preschool to adult! Many of us who grew up or had children in the 70s and 80s remember this great book fondly, and miss...

  • Love's Lovely Counterfeit

    James M. Cain

    Ben Grace, a member of the organized crime gang that controls Lake City, leaks evidence implicating the leader in murder and tax evasion, leading to a violent struggle to maintain control of the city in face of a reforming mayoral candidate...

  • On Keeping Women

    Hortense Calisher

    A complex masterpiece that reveals the mind of a contemporary woman beyond the confines of family, love, and duty to one's self Lexie, a married woman with four children, undergoes a midlife crisis and questions her role as wife, mother, and lover...

  • Tara of the Twilight

    Lin Carter

  • My Darling Spitfire

    Rosemary Carter

    She would get there one way or another Siane felt she'd waited long enough to marry her childhood sweetheart, John. Now she'd take matters into her own hands. Stowing away in Andre Connors's truck to reach her fiance was a risk, she...

  • Broken Cycle

    A. Bertram Chandler

    Being lost in space was no new experience to John Grimes, whose career as an interstellar officer had brought him into many such dilemmas. But being lost inside a colossal alien spacecraft had no precedent.Complicating the matter was the discovery th...

  • Walk to the End of the World

    Suzy McKee Charnas

    After thirty years, Suzy McKee Charnas has completed her incomparable epic tale of men and women, slavery and freedom, power and human frailty.It starts with Walk to the End of the World, where Alldera the Messenger is a slave among the Fems, in thra...

  • The Twenty-One-Mile Swim

    Matt Christopher

    With remarks about his small stature and poor swimming skills ringing in his ears, the son of Hungarian immigrants begins to train for the 21-mile swim across a nearby lake....

  • The Jasmine Bride

    Daphne Clair

    Rachel knew she was out of her depth Meeting Damon Curtis, the famous New Zealand novelist, had brought zest to Rachel Standen's intellectually starved life. Falling in love with him was another matter entirely. He was a sophisticated man w...

  • Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library!

    Eth Clifford

    You wouldn't want to spend the night! Mary Rose's father always waits until the last minute to do everything. Now they're in the middle of a blizzard and the car runs out of gas. Mary Rose and her younger sister Jo-Beth are supposed to wait in the...

  • The Lucky Stone

    Lucille Clifton

    There is nothing Tee enjoys more than sitting out on the porch with her great-greatmother, listening to the fascinating stories about the lucky stone.Shiny and black as night, it brought good fortune to each of its owners for over one hundred years. ...

  • Death of a Lady's Man

    Leonard Cohen

  • Maiden Crown

    Meghan R. Collins

    Sixteen-year-old Sophie, having left her Russian homeland to marry the Danish king, struggles to preserve a sense of her own value against the court intrigue and double standards of 12th-century Denmark....

  • Jethro and the Jumbie

    Susan Cooper

  • The Dossier of Solar Pons

    Basil Copper

    August Derleth created in Solar Pons a detective whose genius cannot be matched, perhaps not even by Sherlock Holmes himself! Now the pen has passed into the hand of the noted British author Basil Copper. Here are six superblly crafted tales of Solar...

  • The Secret Files of Solar Pons

    Basil Copper

  • Guardian of the Heart

    Caroline Courtney

    The Marquis of Rossington was a libertine. The ladies of the London ton and the Versailles court loved him far too well for their own good and learned too late that he loved no one. To this handsome, bitter man, Sir John Lawley had, by mistake, assi...

  • Image of Evil

    Rosemary Crawford

    The unexpected letters should have warned her. People don't appear from nowhere claiming family ties. But, young and alone, Susan Cornell longed for a family. And on the surface, Southern Moon, the Louisiana plantation where her mother had once lived...

  • The Coachman's Daughter

    Donna Creekmore

    Her sister's mysterious disappearance and rumors of the gruesome "Shoreditch Slasher" filled violet-eyed Linnet Hamilton with terror and foreboding. But to carry out the wish of her father and discover her heritage, she moved to her nativ...

  • Fall Guy

    Jay Cronley

  • Kona Winds

    Janet Dailey

    It was paradise...with one fatal flaw Julie Lancaster thought her new job was perfect. She had a gracious employer, a charming teenager to teach, and best of all, the splendid beauty of Hawaii. Then Ruel Chandler came on the scene. Her pupil&#...

  • Midnight Visitor

    Leo Dartey

    She froze, unable to reveal her presence. Diana stepped into the shadow of a tree as a man appeared in the garden, silhouetted in the moonlight. He approached the rear of Manor St. David, and knocked softly on the French doors -- doors that led into ...

  • The Gold Machine

    Martin Davies

  • The Hog Murders

    William L. Deandrea

    TO COMMIT THE IMPOSSIBLE CRIME The little town of Sparta, New York has been having a hellish winter. Certainly it's not the record snowfall or the. Arctic temperatures that are making things hot. What's got the local police in a sweat is a series ...

  • Sunk Without Trace

    Dominic Devine

  • Panama Red

    Stephen Diamond

  • Echo Round Bones

    Thomas M. Disch

  • The Wishing Bottle

    Sheila Dolan

  • The Rite

    Gregory Douglas

    The sacrifice was Judith Bradford, blonde, beautiful, and as yet untouched. Her desire was to become an actress; her dream, to be a star. Who would have believed that her first audition was to be with death--and the leading man, her lover, the Devil ...

  • Return to Lanmore

    Sheila Douglas

    It was time to heal the breach The separation hadn't been of Nell's making -- her grandfather had been totally unreasonable. But now, with him ill, Nell had to make amends. Sympathy over the old affair lay with her grandfather, but she ...

  • The Burning Land

    Emma Drummond

    TWO WOMEN FROM TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS... JUDITH -- A proud English beauty, she left the glitter of London society, pursuing Alex across two continents, seeking the desperate courage to declare her love.... HETTA -- Gentle, tender, rooted in the e...

  • Runaway Maid

    Ann Edgeworth

    "She's a fine lady who will suit Sir Giles well." Robina's heart sank at the words. The thought of Sir Giles marrying another woman was more than she could stand. But there was nothing she could do about the situation. Her pose ...

  • The Silken Net

    Rachelle Edwards

    SHE LOVED HIM TOO MUCH TO CARE ABOUT HIS PAST... Luke had been a sweep's apprentice, rescued purely by luck from his cruel master. Over the years he had grown from a scrawny, frightened child to a handsome young man full of bursting health and qui...

  • The Sister Act

    Blossom Elfman

    To achieve independence from a domineering mother and to become women on their own terms, intellectual eighteen-year-old Molly tries to turn romantic fantasy into reality and her sixteen-year-old sister, Shera, meets Brian and becomes pregnant...

  • Walking Out

    Ann Elwood

  • The Money Wolves

    Paul Erickson

  • My Diary

    Edmund Evans

  • Longarm in the Sand Hills

    Tabor Evans

    IN THE SAND HILLS OF NEBRASKA -- A NEST OF DREAMERS... The commune. They rolled out West with a tinhorn dream -- seeking paradise in the middle of a desert hell. Longarm is sent to run them off the cattlemen's land. And to track down their se...

  • The Romany Rebel

    Zabrina Faire

    Lord Roxbrough had taken charge of young Easter Hazeltyne's life and he decreed she was to be presented in town. He watched her carefully, lest she commit some indiscretion. He had been hurt by love, and now she must be protected from it. But Easter ...

  • Henrietta

    Ann Fairfax

    GROOMING THE GROOM In Nethercote, it was universally agreed that Henrietta, the Vicar's sister, was a hopeless spinster. Yet no one could deny that she possessed a magnificent pair of hazel eyes -- and a high-stepping spirit. So when Aunt H...

  • The Black Stallion Picture Book

    Walter Farley

  • Feldman, New and Selected Poems of Irving

    Irving Feldman

  • Uptown/Downtown

    Stan Fischler

  • The Day of the Klesh

    M.A. Foster

    His name was Meure and he hired out on an alien ship to see the universe. There were ler aboard that vessel-transmuted humans who were partial supermen-and specifically there was the ler girl Flerdestar who had a mission. When Meure and Flerdestar we...

  • The Gameplayers of Zan

    M.A. Foster

    "Out of print since 1985, these three classic novels form a trilogy that chronicles the history of an alternate human race, the Ler, from their origins as a bioengineered ""superhuman"" race on Earth to their complex civilizations in space. Together...

  • Mother's Helper

    Maureen Freely

  • Faeries

    Brian Froud

    'This enchanting book explores the realm of elves, pixies, leprechauns, dryads and other mythical creatures. Nearly 200 extraordinary drawings and full-colour paintings combine to produce a book which has stood the test of time since it was first pub...

  • Mrs. Gaddy and the Ghostq

    William Gage

  • Counterstroke

    Andrew Garve

    1979, mass market paperback reprint edition, Penguin, NY. 178 pages. Mystery writer, Andrew Garve, was a creative, skilled writer who always came up with something different. A wife of a high British official has been kidnapped. The terrorists want t...

  • Three 19th-Century Novels

    Victoria Glendinning

  • Burger's Daughter

    Nadine Gordimer

    "A riveting history of South Africa and a penetrating portrait of a courageous woman." -- The New YorkerA must read fiction of South Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureThis is the moving story of the unforgettable Rosa Burger...

  • Devil on Horseback

    Elizabeth Graham (1)

    How could she tell Alex the truth? When Joanna Thomas heard from Liz, an old school friend, about the housekeeping job at her brother's ranch, Joanna accepted it to prove that she could succeed on her own. A course in gourmet cooking hadn...

  • The November Man

    Bill Granger

    Devereaux. Both target and triggerman, pawn and master player, the spy who can never come in from the cold... Devereaux. Code name November. Brilliant, lethally cool operative. Years ago regarded as one of America's most valuable security assets. No...

  • The Summer Soldier

    Nicholas Guild

    One day in a quiet northern California college town, an English instructor comes home only to find police clustered around his modest home. His wife is dead, stabbed to death with an ice pick, and suddenly Ray Guinness realizes that his past has r...

  • Sara Summer

    Mary Downing Hahn

  • Infinite Dreams

    Joe Haldeman

    An ancient gypsy puts a curse on all mankind. A cranky Martian Jew takes on the largest corporation in the Galaxy. A Mason jar of home-made booze changes the course of history. A mediocre artist is dragged off to serve jury duty--inside a be...

  • Temple of the Dawn

    Anne Hampson

    Her happiness was marred by a memory. When Lexa came to Thailand as nanny to Alacho Mansell, her only concern was for the delightful little girl. Lexa disliked Paul Mansell, her employer, and was shocked by his harsh attitude toward Alacho. She deter...

  • Sea Lightning

    Linda Harrel

    He treated whales with more respect! Jensa had been looking forward to this unusual assignment--sketching whales in their natural habitat. It could have been both exciting and interesting--except for her employer. Adam Ryder actually seemed to ...

  • The Kent Family Chronicles Encyclopedia

    Robert Hawkins

  • Lydia

    Lois T. Henderson

    A fictional account of the first Christian businesswoman recounts, against the backdrop of first-century Macedonia, her conversion to Christianity through Paul's preaching and her life in a pagan business community of men...

  • Summer of the Gun

    Will Henry

    A tale of the Old West focuses on a frontier family with a dream, a murderous pack of Confederate deserters, a redheaded ranch boy with the cunning of a Comanche, and an old .44 Texas Ranger hip gun known as the Redeemer...

  • Key West

    Burt Hirschfeld

  • One Little Kitten

    Tana Hoban

  • I Made It Myself

    Harriet W. Hodgson

  • Guns Rio Conchos

    Clair Huffaker

  • Prophet of Lamath

    Robert Don Hughes

    BEWARE THE DRAGON! The dragon was divided! Its two heads, Vicia and Heinox, were fighting for control of its massive body. For centuries, it had sat quietly at Dragonsgate, content with its tribute of slaves for food. Now it took to the air, bu...

  • By Blood Alone

    Bernhardt J. Hurwood

  • One-Eyed Jake

    Pat Hutchins

  • Infidelities

    Angela Huth

    This collection of Huth's ironic, incisive short stories centers around some very ordinary people and the extraordinary ways in which they come to terms with seduction, exploitation, and infidelity--their own and others...

  • The Night Manhattan Burned

    Basil Jackson

  • Promises in the Dark

    Hillary James

  • Augusta, the Second

    Katheryn Kimbrough

    Augusta had been the first and foremost of the Phenwick women--but now, generations later, there was another Augusta rising to rival her in the fabulous family. Young and vibrant, this second Augusta was eager to test the powers of her beauty and bra...

  • Leo El Capullo Tardio

    Robert Krais

  • Toys and Tales from Grandmother's Attic

    Edie Kraska

  • Murdermoon

    Paul Kupperberg

  • Sex-If I Didn't Laugh, I'd Cry

    Jess Lair

  • The Tough Winter

    Robert Lawson

  • Malafrena

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Malafrena is not a real place. Itale never dreamed of love, nor Piera of him. Estenskar did not live, only his poems. Only the dreams themselves are real, only their youth, only the wind called Freedom that swept through their lives like a storm unfo...

  • Idaho and Only the Brave

    Paul Evan Lehman

    Aged copy with smugging. Red mark on top edge and a small black mark on bottom edge. Spine has some creasing and front cover has a sticker. Inside front page has a small mark . Ships very quickly and packaged carefully!...

  • The Cougar of Canyon Caballo

    Paul Evan Lehman

  • Rosewood

    Petra Leigh

    BALANCED BETWEEN ECSTASY AND ANGUISH .. . They waltzed with abandon in Brussels while Napoleon challenged his fate. But the war would come between dashing Major-General Brock Savage and his beautiful wife, Garnet--war and the ravishing Cassandra M...

  • Shikasta

    Doris Lessing

    The first volume in the Canopus in Argos: Archives series is presented as a compilation of documents, reports, letters, speeches and journal entries, and purports to be a general study of the planet Shikasta"clearly the planet Earth"to be used ...

  • The Origin of Table Manners

    Claude Levi-Strauss

    "The Origin of Table Manners is the third volume of a tetralogy devoted to American Indian mythology. Unlike the first two volumes (The Raw and the Cooked, From Honey to Ashes), which are devoted to South American myths, the present one establishes r...

  • Douglas Convolution

    Edward Llewellyn

  • Changing Places

    David Lodge

    When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobo...

  • Anastasia Krupnik

    Lois Lowry

    To Anastasia Krupnik, being ten is very confusing. For one thing, she has this awful teacher who can't understand why Anastasia doesn't capitalize or punctuate her poems. Then, there's Washburn Cummings, a very interesting sixth-grade boy who doesn't...

  • A Dangerous Magic

    Frances Lynch

    When young orphan Bridie Tantallon is sent from turn-of-the-century London to Edinburgh to help her great-aunt Lady Otranta complete her memoirs, she does not expect to meet serious obstacles. So she is not deterred by her aunt's pretended dipsomania...

  • T. G. and Moonie Have a Baby

    Fay Maschler

  • Destiny in Rome

    Frances Carfi Matranga

    Afraid of love, afraid to trust her heart, Hope Stephens embraced Rome, the Eternal City, where she could bury old memories, paint again, and begin anew. But the imperious Count Franco Fabiani strode into her life with an offer she couldn't refus...

  • Love's Many Faces

    Patricia Matthews

    The language of love is poetry; words that touch the heart and soul, words that remember beautiful yesterdays and promise wonderous tomorrows... words that capture the magic of a special moment, a special feeling. Patricia Matthews is a woman who und...

  • Golden Empire

    A.E. Maxwell

    IT WAS THE LAST OF THE GIANT CALIFORNIA RANCHES, AND ONE FAMILY SHAPED IT'S DESTINY FOR GENERATIONS. . . Leander Champion Buckles III dominated a room the way mountains dominated the plains. He loved Cira Pico McCartney, the beautiful half-Spanis...

  • Secrets of the Golden Door

    Deborah Szekely Mazzanti

  • A Political Bestiary

    Eugene J. McCarthy

  • My Mother Sends Her Wisdom

    Louise McClenathan

  • Waters Of Siloe

    Thomas Merton

    From the author of The Seven Storey Mountain, this book looks at an order of Catholic monks dating back to eleventh-century France.“The word ‘Trappist’ has become synonymous with ‘ascetic’ and definitely indicates a monk who leads a very ha...

  • Wait for What Will Come

    Barbara Michaels

    Carla Tregellas, last of an ancient Cornish tribe, had suddenly inherited the old family mansion on the cliffs of Cornwall. Much to her surprise she fell in love with it and. longed to keep it. Everyone appeared so kind and welcoming. Except the e...

  • Shadow of Love

    Kristin Michaels

    Although the handsome owner of Rancho Encantado, Claudio St. Croix, was extremely arrogant, beautiful Tracy Farrell couldn’t deny the strong attraction she felt for him. But with the passing days, she began to realize Claudio’s past held a tragic...

  • Quest for Lord Quayle

    Freda Michel

    When a masked stranger murdered the man she was about to marry, young Marianne Holroyd swore she would avenge his death. Her search led her to a number of titled and wealthy young men. But only one of these caught her fancy. He was Lord Chartrand-...

  • Not Bad Man

    John Miglis

  • The Roosevelt Chronicles

    Nathan Miller

  • Toga Party

    Victor Miller

  • Girl Who Lived on the Ferris Wheel

    Louise Moeri

    Set during World War II, this serious treatment of child abuse focuses on a young girl, Clotilde, and her repeated attempts to escape, both physically and emotionally, the terrifying situation that threatens her at home...

  • Too Rich to Live

    S Morgan

  • Savage Interlude

    Carole Mortimer

    Kate's position was impossible! Kate owed a lot to actor James St. Just. He had introduced her to his fascinating theater world. He treated her as his sister--the only family she had. If only she and James could reveal that they were brothe...

  • The Beggar Maid

    Alice Munro

    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013In this series of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people's airs, at times dis...

  • Who Do You Think You Are?

    Alice Munro

  • Midnight Sun's Magic

    Betty Neels

    "You're just what the doctor ordered!" So the crew at Spitzbergen declared when nurse Annis Brown joined their isolated camp. Dr. Jake van Germert didn't seem to agree. His aloof ways irritated Annis until Ola Julsen arrived a...

  • South Wind

    Esther J. Neely

  • Meteor

    Edmund H. North

    A comet, millions of miles long from its flaming nucleus to the end of its fiery tail, blazes across the vastness of outer space - and slams into the asteroid belt. A meteor, a giant chunk of the asteroid Orpheus, is ripped loose and flung toward a s...

  • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

    Joyce Carol Oates

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    Joyce Carol Oates''s prize-winning story ""Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"" takes up troubling subjects that continue to occupy her in her fiction: the romantic longings and limited options of adolescent women; the tensions between mot...

  • Mulberry Music

    Doris Orgel

  • Next-Door Neighbors

    Doris Orgel

  • Another Cat Book

    Charles Ortleb

    This collection of cartoons exploring the central mystery of the cat--its complete inability to feel guilt-reprises some of the great moments in feline history as well as some petty moments of domestic turmoil...

  • Boomerang Bride

    Margaret Pargeter

    Their separation had solved nothing Vicki's husband, Wade, had thrown her out four years earlier and told her never to return. But now he'd turned up again--and he wanted her and their little son, Graham, back on his Australian cattle stat...

  • Wilderness

    Robert B. Parker

    THE CHOICE WAS CLEAR: LIVE AS A COWARD OR KILL AND WALK TALL... Aaron Newman writes books. Macho books about fear. danger, and courage. But on the morning he witnesses a brutal murder, a world of fantasy becomes a terrifying reality. If he talks, ...

  • Spiderweb

    Joseph Persico

  • Black Tickets

    George Phillips

    Jayne Anne Phillips's reputation-making debut collection paved the way for a new generation of writers. Raved about by reviewers and embraced by the likes of Raymond Carver, Frank Conroy, Annie Dillard, and Nadine Gordimer, Black Tickets now stands a...

  • Yobgorgle: Mystery Monster of Lake Ontario

    Daniel Pinkwater

    While visiting Rochester, New York, young Eugene meets the strange Professor Ambrose McFwain and goes out with him in his boat to search for a mysterious sea monster that has been sighted on Lake Ontario....

  • White Indian

    Donald Clayton Porter

    HIS LAND. The vast, virgin ocean of trees was his empire. He was Renno, the White Indian, the mightiest of all the Seneca braves. Now the settlers came to sweep over his home and hunting grounds, with their strange ways, their fiery weapons -- and ...

  • The Shared Room

    Marian Potter

  • The Weekend

    Bill Powers

  • Wall of Serpents

    Fletcher Pratt

  • On the Edge of Cliff

    V.S. Pritchett

    Hardcover: 179 pages Publisher: Random House; 1st edition (October 12, 1979) Language: English ISBN-10: 0394504852 ISBN-13: 978-0394504858 Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 0.9 inches Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces...

  • Where the Wind is Wild

    Franklin M. Proud

    THE REVOLUTION AWAKENED HER LUST FOR POWER... Felicia de Salvatierra y de Leon, aristocratic widow of a famed Chilean patriot, betrayed her husband and his cause of vengeance. Never again would any man control her destiny! Love was a luxury she coul...

  • Inside Las Vegas

    Mario Puzo

  • Cat of Many Tails

    Ellery Queen

    The silent rush of footsteps, the muffled shriek, the ever-tightening noose of exotic silk ... the mark of the Cat. The Cat had claimed number nine.The Cat had nine kills, but Ellery Queen found number ten alive and offered the victim temptingly to t...

  • There Should Have Been Castles

    Herman Raucher

    “Slick, smart, raunchy entertainment” from the international bestselling author of the classic Summer of ’42 (Kirkus Reviews).   Ben is the writer who can’t seem to make it; Ginnie is the dancer who can’t seem to miss. In 1951 they are...

  • The Adversary

    Marc Reiss

  • The Tightwad's Curse and Other Pleasantly Chilling Stories

    Margret Rettich

  • The Boldest Dream: The Story of Twelve Who Climbed Mount Everest

    Rick Ridgeway

  • Love's Sweet Illusion

    Suzanne Roberts

    Lisa Millay was born to dance. It was her destiny--the fire, passion, and sublime talent that had lifted her out of a bleak Kentucky coal-mining town and brought her to San Francisco. Then she met Matt Saber. Matt--the tall, blue-eyed lawyer who l...

  • No Turning Back

    Liliane Robin

    She was a bride in name only.... Francesca had married Lionel Wolf only for the money needed to save her father's life. She thought of him as a sinister tyrant she could neither love nor respect. When Lionel took her to his remote estate on the...

  • Flight Into Peril

    Roberta Roleine

    "You've got to trust me!" Gerard insisted But could Dominique believe her husband? He had just been accused of a terrible crime--drug trafficking--and all the evidence pointed to the fact that he was guilty. Now her husband was in jail, her job...

  • Champagne Spring

    Margaret Rome

    It was the answer to their dreams! Chantal and her brother, Peter could hardly believe their luck when they inherited from their grandmother prosperous vineyards in France. But the legacy was not lovingly given--their unknown grand"mere had...

  • Casablanca Intrigue

    Clarissa Ross

    HONEYMOON--IN HELL! Morocco, 1890. Beautiful Gale Cormier is on her honeymoon. Her husband is right over there talking to a dark man in a red fez... at least, he was a moment ago. But now she is alone as the curious crowd in the marketplace moves ...

  • Paperbag

    Richard Russell

  • Helix

    Desmond Ryan; Joel Shurkin

    A deadly terror is loose in the city. No one can see it . . . No one can fight it . . . No one can stop it. It's so small, it's invisible. So powerful, it's brought a city to its knees . . . It's a new life form. And it lives to kill.But it has an en...

  • The Savage

    Tom Ryan

  • The Second Son

    Charles Sailor

    His name is Joseph Turner, a brave young construction worker, who rescues an imperiled co-worker trapped on a swaying iron girder twenty-four stories high-only to slip and plummet to the pavement below. Horrified onlookers are astonished and the worl...

  • The Story of an African Farm

    Olive Schreiner

    Set in the 1870s on a Karoo farm, The Story of an African Farm tells the tale of Tant Sannie, Em and Lyndall. When the sinister and eccentric Bonaparte Blenkins arrives, their peaceful farm life is disrupted through his various deceptions. His motive...

  • You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown

    Charles M. Schulz

  • Transformations

    Anne Sexton

  • The Top of the Hill

    Irwin Shaw

  • Bamboo Demons

    Jory Sherman

    ASWANG Out of the strange folklore and exotic taboos, from deep within the steamy jungles of the Philippines, emerges a strange creature, part-myth, part-truth -- half-man, half-beast. Its metamorphosis, from human to vicious dog, takes place in t...

  • Reap the Bitter Winds

    June Lund Shiplett

    A beautiful woman torn by desire for two lusting men -- a thrilling continuation of the fiery, romantic saga of our great American past, THE RAGING WINDS OF HEAVEN IN A TIME OF TREMENDOUS ADVENTURE -- A NEW VOLCANIC PEAK OF POWER AND PASSION T...

  • Reap the Bitter Wind

    June Lund Shiplett

  • The Stalkers

    Luke Short

  • Best New Dimension

    Robert Silverberg

  • The Nightclub

    Georges Simenon

  • The Diamonds of Alcazar

    Mary Kay Simmons

    Dark Paradise. El Paraiso was the name of the vast old Spanish ranch in Southern California where beautiful young Caroline Westcott came to work. And indeed at first that great estate did seem an enchanted paradise to the American girl. In the magic ...

  • Old Love

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    More than twenty stories--displaying the Nobel laureate's mastery of form, his range, and his unpredictability-feature New York writers, clairvoyants, Burial Society workers, fantasizing doctors, and other originals...

  • My Mom Got a Job

    Lucia B. Smith

  • Runaway to Freedom

    Barbara Claasen Smucker

    "There's a place the slaves been whisperin' around called Canada," Mammy tells her daughter one night. "The law don't allow no slavery there." The very next morning, a ruthless slave trader separates Julilly from her mother, taking Ju...

  • Builders

    Beverly Sommers

  • I, Etcetera

    Susan Sontag

    In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the reader with exposed workings of an impassioned in...

  • The Fulfillment

    LaVyrle Spencer

    HE ASKED HIS BROTHER TO GIVE HIS WIFE THE ONE THING HE COULDN'T. Together they worked the land. Together they loved a woman. But when Jonathan asked of Aaron what he could ask of no other man a brother's act of compassion becomes a man'...

  • Cerissa

    Jessica St. Claire

    Lovely young Cerissa Hammond was a simple peasant girl when Lord Brett Lindsey first encountered her in her uncle's fields. Enflamed by her innnocent beauty, he amused himself by seducing her; then, on a whim, he carried Cerissa off with him to Londo...

  • Paradox of the Sets

    Brian Stableford

    The final contact made by the Daedalus Mission begins badly, even before the ship makes a hard landing in the middle of nowhere. The situation of the colony doesn't seem to make any sense, and neither does the situation of the indigenous aliens--...

  • Fountains of Paradise

    Lee Stafford

    Emily realized she was going to die The sole survivor of a shipwreck, she was all alone on an endless sea, her dreams of a new life in Bombay shattered. Her eyes closed and her head drooped onto the rim of the life belt Her tired arms could no ...

  • High Ridge Gobbler

    David Stemple

  • Angel Dust Blues

    Todd Strasser

    Once a model student and high school tennis star, Alex Lazar finds an easier, more profitable way of life in drug dealing, but finds he must make a difficult choice when he falls in love, for the first time, with Ellen...

  • The Tears of Venus

    Rebecca Stratton

    Where would this web of secrecy lead her? Was Guido Alessio suspicious of everyone or just Helen? Then why had he hired her to be his daughter's tutor? Helen reasoned that his overprotective attitude stemmed from love for Isabella. But sure...

  • Hazard's Command

    Vivian A. Stuart

    The Crimean War is at its peak as the winter of 1854 sets in, and Commander Phillip Hazard of the 31-gun, steam-screw frigate Trojan is sent to bring troop reinforcements from Constantinople to Eupatoria. On the way, he must handle an overbearing you...

  • The Viscount's Lady

    Margaret Summerville

    SHE FOLLOWED HER LOVE TO ENGLAND'S GLITTERING CITY WHERE EVIL TRIED TO EMBRACE HER. Lovely, red-haired Boadicea Halkyard cared little for the lavish fripperies of London's ton. She attended its gala coming-out balls and parties only to forget--or ...

  • Lost Mountain

    Abra Taylor

    How could she convince Raoul? Dell Everett was in France under false pretenses - as the fiancee of the late Rhys Morgan, writer of erotic poetry. The engagement had been for publicity only - the lie should have ended with his death. But his mo...

  • Kitty

    Jennie Tremaine

    In a brilliant social season, Edwardian London's dizzying whirl had its share of surprises. The latest was Kitty Harrison, once achingly poor, suddenly an heiress--and now, thanks to her determined mother, about to become a Baroness. From the mome...

  • Problems and Other Stories

    John Updike

    In this midcareer collection of twenty-three short stories, John Updike tackles such problems as separation, divorce, and remarriage, parents and children, guns and prostitution, leprosy, swooning, suffocation, and guilt. His self-seeking heroes tend...

  • Novelists and Prose Writers

    James Vinson

    Great Writers of the English Language series. Biographical dictionary of English-language novelists and prose writers. Editor's note. Biographies include personal information, listing of published works, and commentary on the subject's significance. ...

  • In Broken Country

    David Wagoner

  • Owliver

    Gene Walden

    Although each of Owliver's parents has ideas for what he should do when he grows up and they expose him to lessons and experiences of various kinds, Owliver makes his own decision about what he is going to be....

  • Caresse

    Pamela Wallace

    Brooding Passions . . . Swept into the shamelessly sensual society of rich Edwardians, the innocent and beautiful American actress Caresse Cantrell, is shocked when she becomes the victim of the king’s violently jealous mistress, Lillie Langtry...

  • The Book of the Dun Cow

    Walter Wangerin Jr.

    Walter Wangerin's profound fantasy concerns a time when the sun turned around the earth and the animals could speak, when Chauntecleer the Rooster ruled over a more or less peaceful kingdom. What the animals did not know was that they were the Keeper...

  • A Curtain of Green: and Other Stories

    Eudora Welty

    The debut short fiction collection from the Pulitzer Prize"winning Southern author: “A fine writer and a distinguished book” (The New Yorker).   When A Curtain of Green was published, it immediately established an unknown young writer from...

  • Isle of Rapture

    June Wetherall

  • Ambulance Ship

    James White

    CALLING DR. CONWAY There was a lot of talk about the vital importance of his new assignment, but it still seemed like a demotion to Senior Physician Conway. After twelve years of outstanding service--and the most incredible experiences imaginable-...

  • Houston Heat

    Jaye Wilson

  • Small Town

    Sloan Wilson

  • Far from Innocence

    Lois Wyse

    Once, simple pleasures were enough. For Sophie, they might have lasted a lifetime. Mac loved her. Together they would have children. Once, sensational wealth was only a restless longing, urging Mac on. Yet he drove himself, and Sophie with him, to ca...

  • Darkness at Ingraham's Crest

    Frank Yerby

    In this sequel to the The Dahomean, Hwesu, has lost his land, people and even his name. No longer Nyasanu Dosu Agausu Hwesu Gbokau Kesu, son of Gbenu, he is simply Wes Parks, black slave. Yet, the former Dahomean prince has lost neither his physical ...

  • Enchantress

    Katherine york

  • Roadmarks

    Roger Zelazny

    THE LAST EXIT TO BABYLON The Road runs from the unimaginable past to the far future, and those who travel it have access to the turnoffs leading to all times and places even to the alternate timestreams of histories that never happened. Why the...

  • Rachel's Recital

    Melinda Green

  • Truth about Peter

    James Mills

    Mills (Report to the Commissioner) tries to stir up some three-dimensional interest here in the mysterious character of CIA agent Peter Harley--but this novel of drug-smuggling rings in Thailand works just fine as textured, atmospheric action-suspens...